As Paris merchants board up shops and arm themselves with pepper spray, the city remains suspended between deep social unrest ...

Organizers of the Paris protest said an administrative court in the city overturned a ban issued by police after they ...

The French people today feel abandoned, lost. We don’t know what we’re heading toward,” said Sylvie Calvi, a shop owner in an ...

At least 2,400 people were arrested in France after riots Saturday that saw clashes with police, cars on fire, buildings ...

Officers used tear gas and water cannon on a crowd gathered at Bastille square in Paris on Thursday afternoon. Students and labor unions are planning another day of major demonstrations next week.

The interior minister acknowledged that the police were underprepared for the scale of the riots. But Prime Minister ...

Clashes, widespread looting and multiple blazes gripped France in October 2026 as nationwide marches degenerated into street violence, but an aerial image depicting vast swaths of Paris on fire is an ...

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